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Nana Plaza
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Nana Plaza (officially Nana Entertainment Plaza; shortened NEP) is a red-light district in Bangkok. It lies on Sukhumvit Road Soi 4 across from the Nana hotel and allegedly takes its name from an Indian family that owns the land.
Along with Soi Cowboy and Patpong, Nana Plaza is one of the Bangkok red-light districts which serve primarily European and American customers. However, in recent years more Japanese men have found their way here due to the extremely high prices in the Japanese-oriented nightclubs in Bangkok.
The Plaza is in the shape of a square, with a single opening on the western side, and consists of a ground floor and two additional floors. It started out as a restaurant area in the late 1970s. During the early 1980s go-go bars began to appear and gradually replaced the restaurants. As of 2005, the enclosed part of Nana Plaza consists entirely of go-go bars. Woodstock Pub, the sole exception, has sold out to Rainbow group (who already operate 3 other go-go bars in the plaza). The former Woodstock site has opened as "Rainbow 4." The open centre of the ground floor, once simply a car park, is now occupied by beer bars.
There are a small number of exceptions in the upstairs enclosed area to the "only" Go-Go bars recently, being the Cathouse and the Big Mango bars which are more the Pub-like or Beer Bar style with no go-go at all.
Most women working at bars in Nana Plaza are willing to leave with customers upon payment of a bar fine. While most bars in Nana Plaza do not employ kathoeys a few do so exclusively; as of early 2007 these venues are Obsession (ground floor), Casanova, Temptations (middle floor) and Cascade (top floor). The "female" staff at these bars are almost all pre-operative, as opposed to the kathoey bars in Patpong. A very small number of post-operative kathoeys can be found at other bars in Nana.
Nana Plaza is within walking distance of the SkyTrain's "Nana Station".